Perennial, small herbs, bulbs 1.5-5 x 2-5 cm, globose, ovoid, stoloniferous; tunics enclosing layer of long hairs. Stem (9-) 20-50 cm long, glabrous. Leaves 3-4, glabrous, decreasing in size, 3-16 x 0.2-2.0 cm, sessile, linear, lanceolate, marign undulate, tip acute. Flower solitary; tepals 2.5-7.0 cm long, yellow, orange or red, basal dark violet or blackish violet blotch commonly on the inner face; outer segments elliptic acuminate, inner obovate abruptly acuminate. Filaments 6-8 mm, glabrous, anthers 6-8 mm. Ovary c. 8.0 x 2.5 mm, ovoid-oblong; style absent. Stigma c. 2.0 mm broad. Capsule 2.5-3.5 x 1.5-2.0 cm, oblong, dehiscing margin with short erect hairs.